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Twilight of the Machines

Twilight of the Machines

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Author: John Zerzan
Publisher: Feral House
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 reviews
Sales Rank: 318640

Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 260
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.2 x 0.5

ISBN: 1932595317
Dewey Decimal Number: 363.7
EAN: 9781932595314
ASIN: 1932595317

Publication Date: April 1, 2008
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"John Zerzan can now credibly claim the honor of being America's most famous anarchist. His writing is sharp, uncompromising, and tenacious."-Derrick Jensen, Utne Reader

The mentor of the green anarchist and neo-primitive movements is back with his first book in six years, confronting civilization, mass society, and modernity and technoculture-both the history of its developing crisis and the possibilities for its human and humane solutions.

As John Zerzan writes, "These dire times may yet reveal invigorating new vistas of thought and action. When everything is at stake, all must be confronted and superseded. At this moment, there is the distinct possibility of doing just that."

Previous works from John Zerzan include Elements of Refusal, Future Primitive, Against Civilization, Running on Emptiness, and Questioning Technology. He has also contributed to Apocalypse Culture, Telos, and Fifth Estate. An Oregonian with degrees from Stanford University and San Francisco State University, he is an editor of Green Anarchy magazine. Read more at JohnZerzan.net.




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4 out of 5 stars An Updated Version of Elements of Refusal   November 2, 2008
Zerzan updates his exploratory work on the illness of a "productionist civilization"(as he calls it) that began with the collection of essays entitled Elements of Refusal, but this time Zerzan leaves out all the post-Left labor studies stuff.

The principal issue facing mankind as Zerzan sees it is that civilization itself is so alienating and harmful to to our health and contentment that nothing less than a full renunciation of it will enable life to survive on earth. Zerzan then goes on to make his case for this thesis.

One unique feature of Twilight is that it contains the only positive review of Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski's The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future I've ever read, as well as comparing Kaczynski favorably with philosopher Frederich Nietzsche.

The amazing thing about civilization and its "discontents" says Zerzan is that just when you think it can't possibly get any worse for us, it does. But not for much longer he predicts. The present downward course of productionist civilization is going to kill us all if we don't shut it down soon.

All in all Zerzan has written a very challenging book and deserves more recognition as the preeminent philosopher of anarchism. An accolade usually accorded to the likes of Noam Chomsky, Anton Pannekoek, or Murray Bookchin.

I recommend Twilight of the Machines to those interested in exploring the possibility of a post-Left anarchism.



5 out of 5 stars Zerzan is pure genius!   July 28, 2008
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As usual, Zerzan's latest work is a stroke of genius! Read it and weep! Learn how the world "really" works and how it will effect our future. May John Zerzan live 1,000 years!


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